Grilling with charcoal for the first time. I’ll be honest, it’s not going great. The coals aren’t hot enough. I’ll figure it out next time. 🔥
It’s always fun when the girls want to go to the coffee shop to study with me. (My semester is over and I don’t have any pressing project deadlines, but I said yes anyway.)
Welp. I think I broke the microblogging setup that I had working. I’ll try to fix it this weekend.
Let me just say that moving posts from a Squarespace site I’ve had for 14 years is not an easy process. I don’t want to trash everything and start over. But…
Dusting off the old Squarespace ➡️ Micro.Blog setup. I redesigned my site a while back and the new template didn’t handle posts without titles well. I finally switched templates back to something that works better.
The ability to place one InDesign document into another InDesign document seems stupid… until you need it. And then, it’s completely awesome.
Friday night fun with fonts. I just used Glyphs to export my first variable typeface with two axes. I’ve still got some adjustments to make before I release it, but I’m happy with how the file works in Illustrator.
I really want to buy a Raspberry Pi. I’m just not sure why.
After being at home for – I’ve lost count – weeks, I now find myself looking for ways to upgrade my work at home set up. I don’t really need organizers, shelves, a desk pad, a boom arm mount for my podcast mic or a mechanical keyboard. But I want them…
A long day of virtual meetings is just as exhausting as a long day of in person meetings.
My to do list is now divided into three categories: work 🖥, school work 📗 and fun work ✏️.
Something I’ve learned by being home… our cats sleep in the same exact spots every day.
🎧 Music for this week: I’m only going to listen to bands I’ve seen live. Currently listening to Midnight Oil’s Scream in Blue Live. I used to go to live shows all the time, but haven’t in years. After this is all over, I’m completely going to a live show of some sort.
Starting to make a list of things I need to improve my work-from-home setup. The temporary setup is fine, but after a few days of work, I can tell some areas I need to upgrade.
When I went to the office to grab the things I needed to work from home, I should have grabbed my office chair.
First day of school from home…
High Schooler: Logs into Google Classroom. Gets to work.
Middle Schooler: Complains. Logs into Google Classroom. Gets to work.
2nd grader: Now what do I do? Now what do I do? Now what do I do?
I’m either going to have to move my makeshift home office out of the kitchen or buy more Cheez-Its.
I'm disappointed that I won't be visiting Memphis for the AEJMC Southeast Colloquium, but I think it’s funny that my paper on the introduction of the Linotype to rural South Carolina newspapers in the early 1900s will now be presented at a virtual conference.
One of the oddities of going to grad school when you are older… sometimes you go to Starbucks to get some work done and your high schooler tags along so she can study, too.
I voted in the South Carolina primary this morning with new paper ballot voting machines. Easy to use. Paper trail. I like them.